MOSHE SAFDIE:

MUSEUM ARCHITECTURE 1971 - 1998

If I forget thee, Jerusalem, Between Memory and Identity

PROJECTS

Transport Memorial, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

"Written in pencil in the sealed railway car." Dan Pagis

The title of a poem by Dan Pagis, which is carved on the wall of the site.

Railway Cattle Car
Railway Cattle Car from the Wadi

 

Client: Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem

Architects: Moshe Safdie and Associates, Architects

Materials: Text in Hebrew and English, a German railway car, concrete, stone, wood, glass, iron

Cost: $1 million

Time of construction: 1991-1995


Moshe Safdie Exhibition

Beginnings

Events

Projects

The Safdie Project

Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery

Israel National Museum of Science